Kate Harbour's voice credits are far too numerous to list, but she is best known as Wendy in Bob the Builder. She's been in Shaun the Sheep, Chicken Run and many other films, TV series, and audio dramas. (I appeared with her in The Secret Show and The Octonauts). She is a musical theatre actress as well as a versatile and very funny voice actor. She also hosts animation voice acting workshops. We had a very entertaining and wide ranging chat about the business of voice acting and the future of the industry.

Actor and voice artist Paul Panting, a fellow Octonaut (he's Peso) has been in the business for over 30 years. Theatre and television, audiobooks, animation - He has been providing voices for Chuggington since the first season in 2008. Other credits include Muck in the UK dub of "Bob the Builder" (2015 reboot). I've known him since we both started out. We spoke about his career, the voice industry and the future.

Rupert Degas has been a professional voice actor for over 30 years. He is also a theatre and television actor. Currently living in Australia, his animation voice credits include a 7 year stint in Bob the Builder, Chop Socky Chooks, Robotboy, Thomas and Friends, Lucky Fred, Groove High, The Amazing world of Gumball and many more. He has been hundreds of video games, narrates audiobooks, does commercials, basically he can do pretty much anything that's thrown at him. A highly versatile and entertaining actor, our conversation covered everything from impressions to global politics.

Lizzie Waterworth is the voice of Horrid Henry (for which she was BAFTA nominated), but she is also a voice artist in many other shows and video games, and has been working in the industry for 20 years. Recently she branched out into books, by writing 'How to Talk so People Will Listen' which offers practical advice to help children find their voice and boost confidence when speaking in front of other people. I spoke to her about her career and about the voice industry in general.